Nature & Wildlife
Every February 14th, we celebrate Valentine’s Day, a time that has become synonymous with emotional connections and loving relationships. It’s often marked by romantic gestures, such as giving chocolates or flowers, writing a love letter, preparing a candlelight dinner, holding hands—or kissing.
Asia & The Pacific
Chitwan National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is a vast nature reserve in the southern lowlands of Nepal. Chitwan is Nepal’s first national park, established in 1973, and spans 360 square miles. This ecoregion has a tropical monsoon climate where wildlife abounds from the fertile Inner Terai valleys to the lush Churia Hills.
Asia & The Pacific
From the moment they enter the world, Asia’s largest mammals and fiercest predators begin life at their most vulnerable. Whether it’s a newborn elephant learning to control its trunk, a young rhino navigating grasslands with limited sight or a tiger cub relying entirely on its mother’s protection, these early months shape survival.
Asia & The Pacific
As the largest member of the cat family, tigers are compellingly powerful and stealthy. It’s no wonder they’ve been one of nature’s most feared predators for roughly two million years! But in just the past 150 years, the tiger’s range has shrunk by nearly 95%.
Asia & The Pacific
Samundra Subba is a research officer at WWF Nepal with a focus on large carnivores—primarily tigers and snow leopards. He’s joined six satellite telemetry expeditions of snow leopards. The mountains are calling and I must go For as long as I can remember, I’ve had an affinity for the wild—a love affair, if you must.
Conservation
Preserving the biodiversity we have left is not only of extreme importance for the species we are rapidly losing, but for our own health and well-being. It has long been a goal of nature lovers and conservationists all over the world.
News & More
For two years, many of us have dreamed up lists of far-away places, and as travel restrictions and border closures continued, these plans seemed increasingly far-off. Now, as travel makes its return, we couldn’t be more excited for those dream trips to become reality.
Nature & Wildlife
Even if you don’t know much about the science regarding COVID-19, you probably can’t escape the fact that the disease has caused major changes in your everyday life and livelihood.
Nature & Wildlife
Since 1970, the annual Earth Day has been a time for us to reflect on the beautiful planet, the third from the sun, that we call home.
Asia & The Pacific
In Search of the Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen The now across the river glows, and the rocks and peaks, the serpentine black stream, and snows, sky, stars, the firmament—all ring like the bell of the universal Buddha. –Dharma Rain In the Himalayas, Buddhist monasteries are saving snow leopards.
Conservation
2019 is on the horizon, and with the new year comes new challenges facing the planet. But with 2018 ending, we can look back on the events of the year and appreciate the conservation wins that provide hope for the future.
Travel Tales
There is an interesting photograph hanging in our hallway that reminds me of a very special traveling companion named Fred. The wooden-framed picture shows a little Buddhist boy crouched on a stone window sill of a house in Kathmandu, Nepal, wearing his dirty flip flops and simple street clothes.
